Something changed: the login form used to take my player-character credential, and then load up the webclient for me with the moo all logged in and ready to go.

Yesterday that stopped working, now the form takes my credential and... Just sends me to the webclient with telnet up but no moo login.

Thanks!

By beandip at Dec 7, 2012 7:14 PM

Apologies for the bug. When I added the support for keeping your input buffer across browser windows / session, I inadvertently broke the mechanism needed for remembering your login information as well as auto-logging you in.

This bug has been fixed, though the username/password it was remembering for you had to be forgotten in order to make this fix happen. Don't worry, it'll remember your u/p for the next time -- it was just this once that it had to forget.

Thanks, Johnny, for continuing to work on the web client. I am continuing to love it, as the best iPad client available - purpose-built M** clients aren't even as good.

As of today, something has changed in the web client though, which has made it quite a lot harder to use on iPad. I don't know about other browsers because I haven't been using it in other browsers.

The new effect is, the input field isn't fixed at the bottom of the screen anymore. It floats up, leaving a lot of useless space between the input field and the bottom of the window. There's not much room left for displaying the game text. I can try to make the inout field scroll down to the bottom edge again, but, it moves all over the place when I: Scroll up to see other text. Turn the onscreen keyboard on and off. Switch between windows. It's making the web client a lot harder to use, because I have to spend so much time moving the input field back where it belongs all the time.

Just thought you'd like to know. Thanks again!

By beandip at Dec 24, 2012 2:09 PM

Whatever was going on, it's back to normal now. If something got fixed, then thanks! Otherwise, FYI there's no problem.

Mitigating ideas: Either eliminate it, or, place it with a confirm style prompt (yes/no) instead of something you can't do anything with other than click-to-proceed. Thing is, the only actions which trigger the prompt are deliberate use actions - the browser refresh button, or, the in-page Reconnect button. In the case of Refresh, I can see a non-confirmation being useful. In the case of Reconnect, by this time the connection is already dead, so there isn't anything to Undo or to alert about. Thanks for considering it!

Both the main website and the web client now support https/SSL (secure) connections. Just go to https://www.sindome.org/, login should work as normal. When using the webclient, you can tell you're about to connect securely by the state of the lock icon next to the blue CONNECT button. Click it to switch to secure or back.

A small but important update for the web client with some fixes targeted at administrative users. Players might find the font choice useful though. All options are present on the updated Client Options screen.

I love the web client. Always have. I've been using it instead of all the shiny programs i used to have.

BUT...

Could it be possible to have a web client version that has a white background and black text ?

Some of us tend to sneak in a few hours of sindome during the working hours , plugging in while we are stuck in meatspace.

Having a black screen white white and red scrolling text is a dead giveaway we aren't working. Having a white screen with black text like every other page on the internet will make it less obvious. Maybe have a button that reloads the page with the new colour scheme ?

By malfius at Apr 8, 2014 2:01 AM

As a temporary fix, you could use Windows 7's magnifier accessibility program to inverse all of the colors in your display. This way, if the client is open in full windowed mode, it will look like a normal document/webpage at a glance. There may be another tool out there that provides this service in a windowed area only, but I haven't checked.

By Sinbad213 at Apr 8, 2014 8:00 AM

I would have to evaluate our entire use of colored text if I was going to create a stylesheet to adjust the colors. It might happen one day, but its not likely. Instead, I encourage you to learn some CSS and setup a User Stylessheet to override the colors. If you're using Firefox, the GreaseMonkey extension can help (but you'll still have to learn CSS!).